Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-08
FOR THE LADIES.
Coming Sale Of the French
Crown Jewels-Trousseau
Of Miss Croker.
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Funeral.
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YsahIoned GIrI-Prstty Fashions
n Paris. Rte.
yuE TEExcn cRewS JEwEEs.

TuE FREscu cRows ygwEEs-
ss<sr csmsns sale Al Auealsn In the
Palace o. che TuIleTIes-Bsablen
that EisEs Eave Pswnea.
tSer York Ssa.l
tiffany A Co, OF this city. have been
. selected a. the agents Of the French
(ioyefnment IN the matter Of the sale
a the French crown jewels They
! have handsomely printed catalogues
containing 3 list Of the jewels 20 be
soId and the conditions Of the sale
4 The sale j. made under the Law passed
y ~ the French Congress on December
81 isss, and which was first pr0mul-
rated IN the official journal on the 18th
n January last The sale i TO begin
an the l2th Of Nav az O'Clock in The
sltegnoon and will continue from day
y % day thereafter until the collection Il
= Aisposed o. The sale will be bv pub
h suction, and will be held in the
= Palace Of the Tuileries, Pavilion de
y Fiofe.
IT'S believed that the sale viii offer
n little interest except to dealers, a. the
st are not Of character suited 20
n modern tastes, and. with the exception
q Ga few royal and noble houses. which
nay wish 70 buy them as souvenirs
~
. purchase will care less for the purely
historic associations than for the ae-
tnal money value Of the Jewels The
sets will then be broken up doubt
less. and the jewels scattered broad
east from Sc. Petersburg 70 San Fran
cisco.
I, The collection became for the first
~ zine the property Of the State in the
reign Of Francis T., who. In letters pa-
tent issued at Bordeaux in June. 1880
u made them over to the State AT that
time the collection was not valued IT
- quite 100000 OF our money. but il
has since received innumerable addi-
- tons. and just what its present value
3 Is cannot easily be estimated until 1t
- has been measured by the coming sale.
The original collection made over by
Ffaacis consisted Of one large neck
ee lace and six finger rings, having be-
- longed 10 the Princess Anne Of Brit
- tany, 10 whom they had been left BY
~ The will Of Marguerite de Fax One
d these stones was celebrated during
he sixteenth century under the name
- o. Belle Pointe and a still more fam.
~ Gus one was q ruby known as the Cote
- De Bretagne. In 1880 the cote was
r. ses IN a pendent for the neck. having
Ill The shape Of Roman A and later
Catherine de Medici had il surrounded
With eleven large pearls. The cote the
iranes, was subsequently, pledged with
two other rubies bv Henry Ill. for
money 10 pay his troops. The Jewels
were pledged with a certain Legrand
- who died without being paid, leaving
~ the jewels 20 his family. They were
redeemed nearly century later and
40 returned 10 the royal collection. among
them. oicourse, being the cote In lTlg
Louis XVI. had il cut into the form Of
adragon holding in It's mouth the gold
en- fleece.
This Is only specimen of the inter.
esn eSting histories attached 10 the Jewels
which have nov but two weeks 20 re-
main together, after so many centuries
o. reneated separations aud reunions
Hardly one Of them but has IT, midi
udaal romance and story OF adyen-
~ TIRE, and many OF them are associated
with the darkest crimes and infamies
q the wonderfully dramatic French
history.
Soon after the trouble OF the League
and the religious wars there appeared
Nicolas Harlay de Sancy, whose name
.ttt i connected with one Of the interest
- ing gems Of the collection from the
r. hei that Il originally belonged to him.
hoagh how itcame into his possession
eamystery, He was el-Generai
4 q the Swiss Guards aud the most fam
OIL oas expert in precious stones then
~ nond he sold in iG0i 30 King James /
go q England. by whom il was left 10 his
49, son Charles / When the Common.
Ri ! wealth wars broke out King Chares's
So daughter Henrietta brought the Saney
diamond TO France and there pledged
HxI Hlof large sum, In May, 1857. MAJ
ara redeemed the pledge, and with
ne consent Of the Queen OF England,
tie eecame the owner IL the Sancv. which,
With sixteen other Jewels he left in his
DO vii 20 Louis XIV. The Sancv dia.
lam nond and another one called the Mirnir
q Portugal were stolen during the
Reign OF Terror and finally came into
- tae possession Of Charles v. Of Spain
-. They were sold. BY the advice Of Ma
Paleon, % dealer Whether they arc
aetaally now in the French treasury is
1l2 somewhat uncertain, as their identity
PAS been lost by the experts The
smous Rerent diamond was pur-
chased In i1i7. and was the center oi
- heigontal band Of the crown made hy
alss hende which at the coronation Of
90 Louis XIV. was surmonnted bv feur
gsaA he Sancv
o. same few Of the French monRrchS
81 sAVs had great fondness for wearing
rmI Weer0Nn levels, though for the most
~ PAT hey have remained in the trea-
ssry As contingent fund 20 be drawn
n tnm IN great crises and emergencies
1ffA Aare Ant0inette took great interest
I'LL y me Jewels, and was especially fond
Hill aeeriAiG set ot rubieS To this set
|fIA le saded 80 MANY other precious
No0eS that The identity Of the original
- Nh'ch had been valued NJ it0 Ooo
HMasN, Nashard 90 establish from those
Fses, which we're her Maiesty's pri-
nas Ae property; so the privy council
81 .aantiy settled he matter hv making
present ~ the entire collection 70 the
Sleen This was in 1875 and six wears
= .sF ne National Assembly reversed
~ - order, and enacted that al Jewels
'essa he considered State property
conformity with the intentions 81
aaes l. An inventory was then
49, ~ and the Jewels were deposit
y the Gsule Meubie where they
= - on exhibition % the puhlic on
- days. just a. are the crown
1reat Britain Al the present
vas tnallv decreed that they
FAR SA The dccrse was never en-
eui theV were stolen instead
1'eVes entered the room where
-. sefe kept. by rope ladders at
49, % = lsmp-post in the Rue 81
80 taFvnlin. The burglary was on /,
Afot magnitude conln,ets t,r,,ts veith
aaaguihcence of the |prire and vent
.pes Sering several DAYS. At last sen
- ~ what vas derurrtnr. and sew.
80 TIE burglars we're arrested and
@slf nunlbcr one Or two confessed
A.. 1eie Plot. sni aid that gang %
g. sefe implicated ia H. some Of
-, sept watch while the others on
So ard the thefts had been in PRO
I Nfen DAYS There Wrss A stormy
t'e next dav in the Assembly